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Bookmark this pageI'm All Right, Jack (1959)
Director: John Boulting
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The best of the Boultings' warm, vulgar, affectionate satires. The travails of silly-ass hero Carmichael are only mildly amusing, but the film blazes into life with the arrival of Sellers' Stalinist Don Quixote, tilting with alarming predictability at the windmills constructed by his class enemies. The Red Robbos of this world may be an unfairly easy target, but Sellers' caricature is affectionate, not malicious. Accusations of union-bashing are misplaced. The workers may all be dumb clods who sleep with their vests on, but there's a grudging appreciation of their truculent cynicism, and Attenborough's horrid little entrepreneur discovers that in making them the dupes of his capitalist crookery he brings about his own downfall.Author: RMy
Cast & crew
Director: John Boulting
Producer: Roy Boulting
Cast: Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Irene Handl, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, Liz Fraser, Margaret Rutherford, Miles Malleson, John Le Mesurier full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 105 mins
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